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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1943)
1 PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON October 1, 1943 M$mbf 0f Tun Amounts Pimm Th AseoeUfed Prea It rein Iwly rotltttd to th dm of re CKibllralioo of all dcwb dJpittie credited to I or not othcnrlM credit In this pper, end et " Mm local news publUhed therein. Alt rtcnta of ttpublieittoa of specis. dispatches tre also rs erred. ' FRANK JENKINS Kdiiot v A ttmporarp eMablsattoa af Uia Hrcalac BmU l4 tti. Kluaatn Rawa, rubluhad vnrj aftaraooa ampa Sunday al Saplaaada ud fti itrwU, Klaauta Falla, Orvw, bj Ut. Hrat PuM Mbtaa Ot, aa4 la KlUMI Vvt roblUalaa. Ooaaaay Rntaraa' at MatMa1 law sattar al Uta aeatofflaa f aUaaialk Falla, Oia, ca Aami . MM uaaV aot at aaaarau, Marca a. lira. JfaaaW A can Bcbjuv Of CmCVULTM BapiaaaaM Katloaattr ky , Wbt-Holuiut Co, Ixc. Sal rraaalaM, In Tort. (a. aula, CbKato, rurtlaad, loa Aacalaa. MALCOLM ETLEY MaMfing Editor SIDE GLANCES EPLET Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY WE'RE going to do a little shop-talking with Herald and Newa readers today, on the topic of the shortage in newsprint, the paper on which Tne rieraia ana News U printed. That shortage is going to be more acutely felt on our ' paper in the next three months than at any time since the war reduced newsprint pro duction. An additional cut has been ordered, and our pros pective usage of paper for the finaLthree months of 1943 far exceeds the prospective supply That, briefly, is the story, without going into the intricacies of the allot ment procedure and the other factors that bring it about. We will say, however, that our paper has experienced a steady rise in circulation in the last year, and that is one reason the problem has arisen. Various measures must be taken to meet it, and we are going to discuss a few of them today. Maintaining Traditions IN THE first place, we will try to get along without disturbing the traditional form and features of our paper.. What we must do is to cut to the essentials and eliminate the frills, and make typographical changes that will save space. One was made in yesterday's paper, a techni cal change that places the lines of body type closer together. Still another was to shorten the front page "banner" to seven columns, mak ing It possible to move the page one editorial column to the very top of the page. Several.' changes of this nature will probably be hardly noticeable by the reader.. . We will not be able to use such long stories as in the past, and those who submit material to the paper are asked to remember this. Like-- wise, publicity material will be carefully edited to avoid repetition. We especially want to advise against organization publicity that is measured on a space basis. Publicity that is brief and to the point can be a lot more ef fective than a lot of needless words that look good only in scrapbooks. We are going to continue to produce local pictures, which have become such an important part of our paper, but both newsprint and pic ture material shortages necessarily will limit the number of such pictures we can use. Pic ture suggestions from our readers will be wel come as always; if we can't follow them up, that will be frankly explained and we hope everyone will understand. There will be various changes in circulation and business office policies that will be dis cussed later. What we are trying to say today is that the war brings problems to the news paper office, as it does elsewhere, and that we hope to make the best of it, continuing to pro duce a paper that merits approval. The situa tion may force some changes along the line of condensation, etc., that will actually improve the paper. At any rate, we hope our readers will understand we are doing our best a a You Challenge Us KLAMATH has not declined in either activity or population, and it is our job to maintain a newspaper commensurate with the active, ag gressive community we serve. Klamath people are intensely, interested in general as well as local news, and we must maintain proper cov erage in both departments. Klamath as a com munity is doing many worthwhile things that must be reported and assisted In our paper. In another kind of community, it might be possible to plot a shrinkage in newspaper serv ice. We can't do that here, thank the Lord. What we must do is to maintain the best pos sible service with the fewer materials available, and, that is our objective. a a a Probably one thing that has made Multnomah county lag in the bond campaign is the heavy use Up there of the asinine expression, "I dood if . . , l UIWl au wr an met. aaVT apaaa. The fellows say she's witty, but if it wasn't for that cute face of hers she'd be classified aa nutty!" News Behind the News Br PAUL MALLOW WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 On its face, the promised appointment of General Mar shall seems to forecast a large new offensive on the European front. Even the White House atti tude encourages this impres sion. The president sharply criticized the recent publie controversy over the matter in the house and the press, and on the radio, on the grounds that it was a military matter. Certainly the existing mili tary matters in Italy and in the air bombing campaign are not such as to require Mar- Consequently, the general as- new offensive is MALLOW snail's transfer. sumption must be that imminent. Labor Draft Dying FE Austin-Wadsworth compulsory labor draft bill is dying on the vine. The only one who could possibly revive it and put it through is Mr. Roosevelt His persistent silence has dis couraged the backers of the legislation. They now know they cannot get the measure out of either the house, or the senate military affairs committee even as far as the senate floor for public discussion. ' The only administration authorities who force fully have advocated the measure are War Secretary Stimson and his assistant, Patterson. Congressmen have heard rumors that at one time the entire Roosevelt cabinet wanted the bill, but apparently not now. It is obvious that the strength of opposition from both labor and. industry has made it a dangerous measure politically.' Indeed, the republican authors of the legis lation have grounds to suspect that the ad ministration has left them holding that bag too long. The rigid labor draft regulations which it would impose upon all men from 18 to 68 and women from 18 to 50 would make them legally if not practically slaves of the state as far as assignment of work is concerned. It follows a totalitarian theme which is away from the latest trend of Washington events and popular opinion. The labor assignment system instituted by Bernard Baruch on the Pacific coast has furn ished a more democratic way of meeting the problem. It ha some of the elements of com pulsion in the establishment of priorities for work and the restriction of hiring to govern ment employment agencies, but the plan is confined to a local emergency basis and the compulsion has been voluntarily accepted by those involved. It to at any rate a two-to-one bet that the national over-all compulsion of the Austin-Wads-worth bill is dead until after the next elec tions, at least The Baruch idea may be ex tended to other emergency localities. No Trips for WAVES THE senate naval affairs committee killed the provision permitting WAVES to go over seas, largely on the private recommendation of some naval officers. The committee members made some personal investigations of the WAVES organization dur ing their recent vacation travels, and brought back splendid reports. They found many girls with unusual education and exceptional back ground in that service. However, to transport them overseas would involve complications of housing which prob ably would cost more than their transportation would be worth. The idea of sending them over was supposed to have had the endorsement of Mrs. Roosevelt, but even so, some of the naval officers remained skeptical. The War Today Br Dewrrr mckenzie As Herr Hitler struggles to hait the retreat of his armies and stabilize his line on .the east ern front, one wonders whether he ever has tigerish nightmares of the awful retribution which might be visited on Germans by the millions of conquered peo ples if there were a nazi military debacle. We have a cogent reminder of this possibility almost a cer tainty for some parts of Europe in the word from Naples that the Germans, seeking revenge for the Italian surrender to the allies, have turned that fine city into a horror. Civilians, includ ing women and children, are re ported to have been machine gunned to death in the streets, and much of the port has been wantonly destroyed. Nasi Atrocity That's mild, though, as com pared with the wholesale mas sacres and other atrocities car ried out in the many occupied countries. ; From the Baltic states westward to the English Channel and southward to the Mediterranean, millions of folk are waiting with blazing hatred for their chance at revenge. And in Germany itself there sre some 12,000,000 Italians, Frenchmen, Belgians, Danes, Poles and other peoples who have been dragged there and put to work as slaves. Reports via Switzerland say that the nazis are further stripping Italy of manpower for forced labor in Germany. Maintain Line Yes, the fuehrer had better maintain his line! If we are to believe German broadcasts, that's wnat the all highest is deter mined to do, for he is said to have established headquarters on the Russian front and decreed that his generals shall not yield "another foot of ground" be yond the prepared nazi positions west of the Dnieper, which now has been reached and is the scene of many bloody battles for control of the main crossings of War News Not Getting to People, Says OWI Board WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 VP) ine newspaper advisory com mittee of the office of war in formation (OWI) says high naval and military authorities are not getting the war news to the American people. "The public is not being ade quately informed," said the com mittee, and added: "If there is any complacency or letdown in the war effort on the part of the American people, it is not due to any lack of patriotism or desire for essy vic tory, but rather to the absence of full necessary understanding." The fflltlt. It BnpHa nM be attributed to "the disinclina tion on the part of some high naval and military authorities to evaluate what is information v wnicn the public is entitled." The committee, which includes executive nf a papers, issued its criticism last mani aiier a aay-iong conference. It praised the work of American war correspondents but pointed out that news that bad not been released to the American people through the domestic channels was first brought to them by Prime Minister Churchill in a house of commons speech. "We believe that American newspapaga themselves have the greatest ivsponsibility In seeing I that the public Is fully informed of the progress of the- war, al ways consistent with considers tions of national- security," the committee's statement said, add ing: "Given the necessary coopera tion, this job will be performed." Young Charlie Chaplin Inducted LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 VP) xoung cnarne Chaplin, son of the famous film comedian with the flanninff ihim anrf Ft 1 a US ucroy, siroae into tne army in duction center today for a going over ay me military medics. If he naaaaa him nhvtlpnl Ar amination, army authorities said, sworn in at 3 p. m. (PWT) today, then granted the customary seven-days' leave be fore entering- actlva unHn a rookie. FREEDOM STUDIED JUNIOR I I I I WALNUT rnwwv nut int. Lyman Stoddard, weekly n'ews- ppw puoiisner, xouna himself listed bv tha war hWm tionlnff hnarrf lila - -' dorse gasoline coupons. Lyman Stoddard, Jr., employ, ed as a printer on his father's neWSnaner. ia th ratlnn hmnl chairman. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 () President Roosevelt said today the position of aviation in the post-wsr world had been under study by the government for months and that both he and Prime Minister Churchill of Britain were in agreement that there should be freedom of the air. Some conversations also have taken nlace on aviaUnnr amn other government officials and other allied 'officials, the chief executive ioia nis press-radio conference. Mr. Roosevelt expressed the view that what he termed in ternal aviation ought to be owned by the individual coun tries and added that rnmrnirrlol and passenger routes in general should be in private hands. There might be some exceptions, he eaid. in InntanrM vrUnrm It im desirable to extend a line to some area into which a private concern could not an nrnfftahlv Then, he tuaaentivi a Onvomm ant line or perhaps a United Nations iiuc aiigni ds opera tea witn a loss. If VOU want tfl axil it nhmu The Herald ad News "want ads," 3124. - -.' COMING In Person Q W OrthnlrVludtTt' ARMORY THURSDAY OCT. 7 this third greatest river of Europe. The climatic struggle which Is going on along most of the thous and mile front, from Leningrad to the Sea of Azov, should give us an indication soon whether the Germans will be able to maintain themselves along the natural line of the Dnieper. Their alternative will be to resume their highly dangerous with drawal into Poland. New Danger As I previously have pointed out. a new and grave danger has been created for the Germans by the red offensive in the Smolensk sector. The ostensible objective of this fresh operation is to drive across into the Baltic states, thus cutting off the Hitlerites in the whole northern triangle, which has one side on the Baltic sea and its apex at Leningrad. If the Russians have the strength to continue this push, it will compel the Germans to resume their withdrawal. Other wise their Dnieper line will be outflanked from the north, and disaster will be stalking them again. Russia's reserve In manpower and material Is an unknown quantity to the outside world. From the Klamath Republican October ). l0i News reached Lakevlnw yes terday that the Lower Chewau can marsh is afire and that thou sands of tons of hay, as well as thousands of acres of pasture and meadowland, had been de stroyed by the fiery demon. The fire started on the lower ZX rancn. W. C. Dalton, foreman of the tarr rancn, was in the city Frl day. ' From the Klamath News October I. 1933 The Klamath Pelicans beat Al turas, 27-0, yesterday. a a Weed-Klamaih Falls highway is me oniy entrance to tne slate of Oregon showing increased travel In tha naxt v,mr mfftwA. ing to the chamber of commerce. Land Bank Loans Have Low Interest Federal Land bank hnrmuvn in Klamath aiiri !.nlr mi.,fl. with National Farm Loan as sociation loans which mature after June 30. 1944. are now assured that tha intaroat rata on their installment navmanta will not exceed 4 per cent dur ing me me oi tneir loans, ri. e. Hamaker, secrctnry-tressurer of me Klamath group, National Farm Loan association, at Klamath Falls, said today. From time to time there have been unofficial reports of a huiie reservoir of trained forces ready for Just such an emergency as now has arrived. The Germans, too. say the reds are employing fresh reserves. However, time is our surest source of the truth in this matter. Germans Using New Type Torpedo AN EASTERN CANADIAN PORT, Oct. 1, (IP) German sub marines have returned to the battle of the Atlantic with a new type of torpedo deadly and ef ficientdeclared more than 100 survivors of sunken allied mer chant vessels who were landed here earlier this week. They were victims of the first big nazi U-boat attack reported In North Atlantlo waters for nearly four months. Included were American, British and Nor wegian seamen and a lone stow away an lB-yeiir-olri negro girl whom a boatswain, also a negro, had hoped to smuggle Into tkfS United Stales. V BOTTLES MARKED ORAVES During World War I, wine bot tles were used to mark tha graves of many French soldiers. Tha name and other informs, tlon were placed inside the bot tle, which was tightly corked and half-burled beside the grave. Men - Women With Own Car Needed as communication carriers in essential public industry. Good pay. Apply Western Union Telegraph Co. Chocolate Caramel Cake ea. 69c A rich chocolate layer cake iced with a creamy caramel icing topped with nut meats. Please your deer huniers with a lunch packed with our delicious cookies, donuts and rolls II ltartia mm . nest BoV 0 It's gret to Be able to uj j!n: "Have Ol tht stocks!" Frankly, we've had gome difficulties ia .jKwaaAA getting glass for packaging (government restric- jPupU tions, you know!) but, we're never lost the main O idea to keep "the favorite coffee of the West" ' ' l too ... with the loyal help o v r uu-M) I 1 IN THE GOLDEN WEST tOfttf
